Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core ... and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served ...

Stereotypical ‘Later Stone Age tools', for example ... With sharp flakes and simple core tools, early hominins could easily slice through the thickened hides of larger-bodied animals (e.g ...

Stone tools are considered the first form of technology devised by ancient humans – but they might not have been invented ...

But how did the production of stone tools—called "knapping"—start? "I don't think it was a 'Eureka!' moment whereby hominins ...

The very earliest stone tools come from the "Oldowan" age which stretched from about ... by chipping one or a few flakes off a stone core using a hammerstone. The bone tools reported in this ...

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

Discover life in the Neolithic Stone Age. Life in the Bronze Age What was Bronze Age Britain like? Learn how bronze tools were made and find out about the Amesbury archer. Life in the Iron Age ...

Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core ... and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served ...

Here you will find videos and activities about the Stone Age. Try them out ... They used flint tools to hunt animals, like deer and mammoths. And it got cold. Really cold, for a long time.